If your main focus is overhead strength, a floor press would be more optimal because you can save your shoulders?

How is that? I have a thick ribcage and short forearms, when I do floor press the bar is maybe an inch from my chest at the bottom. And I can’t arch like I would on a bench, nor do I try to. It’s approximately the same ROM, but rather than stopping on my chest the bar stops where my elbows touch the floor.

Because you don’t have to go past the floor. The shoulders don’t have to do as much work because it’s paused right at 90 degrees. I know you like to argue about benching, I was just stating the obvious. Regardless of arching, you should still be able to pin your shoulder blades back and shove your traps into the ground like a flat bench.

You are a fucking moron. What is the problem with advising someone against replacing bench with floor press? It’s basically the equivalent of replacing squat with leg press. Why do you care what I post on a thread that has absolutely nothing to do with you?

Because, you have no fucking clue why the OP chose to use floor press as a main movement. Maybe, he is working around an injury and needs to limit ROM. And second, the post didn’t ask for your interjection. Read the fucking header again. Now, think. It’s not a question that requires your judgement or any of the bullshit opinion that you spew in a majority of these threads, so the initial question doesn’t even require you to think critically. Read the question, comprehend the question, now answer the question.

-Being flat allowed me to really focus on my upper back arch. Without my Japanese lady intense lower back arch, I had to focus on getting my chest up by actually squeezing my shoulders back properly. That was cool.

-More focus on lowering made me pay attention to my elbows, and keeping them under the bar. I think I was over-tucking my elbows at the bottom (of the regular bench press) and my forearms were not vertical. I can’t do any of that garbage Floor Pressing. My poor wrists would snap if the bar got behind my elbows.